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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from  Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246918
Pages 506 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (2):
Nathan Liefting Nathan Liefting
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Nathan Liefting, also known as Larcorba, is an IT consultant, trainer, and content creator (artist). He has more than 6 years of professional experience in IT. His experience ranges from managing networks running EVPN/VXLAN to Linux environments and programming. Nathan started working with Zabbix in 2016 when it was still at Zabbix 2 and Zabbix 3 was just released. He now works for Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands as a Zabbix trainer and consultant, designing and building professional Zabbix environments and Zabbix components for some of the biggest companies around the world.
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Brian van Baekel Brian van Baekel
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Brian van Baekel quickly discovered how powerful Zabbix is during his career as a network engineer. Ever since, he has been working with Zabbix in various (large) environments, leading to his official Zabbix Certified Trainer certification in early 2017. In 2018, Brian founded Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands and Opensource ICT Solutions LLC in the US. Both companies primarily focus on building Zabbix environments all over the world. In 2021, further expansion of the business was established by opening a subsidiary in the United Kingdom with a full focus on the Zabbix product. All companies provide support, training, and consultancy services, which means Brian works with the Zabbix product 24/7. Fun fact: Even his cat is named Zabbix.
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Installing Zabbix and Getting Started Using the Frontend 2. Chapter 2: Getting Things Ready with Zabbix User Management 3. Chapter 3: Setting Up Zabbix Monitoring 4. Chapter 4: Working with Triggers and Alerts 5. Chapter 5: Building Your Own Structured Templates 6. Chapter 6: Visualizing Data, Inventory, and Reporting 7. Chapter 7: Using Discovery for Automatic Creation 8. Chapter 8: Setting Up Zabbix Proxies 9. Chapter 9: Integrating Zabbix with External Services 10. Chapter 10: Extending Zabbix Functionality with Custom Scripts and the Zabbix API 11. Chapter 11: Maintaining Your Zabbix Setup 12. Chapter 12: Advanced Zabbix Database Management 13. Chapter 13: Bringing Zabbix to the Cloud with Zabbix Cloud Integration 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up the Zabbix frontend

The Zabbix frontend is the face of our server. It's where we will configure all of our hosts, templates, dashboards, maps, and everything else. Without it, we would be blind to what's going on, on the server side. So, let's set up our Zabbix frontend in this recipe.

Getting ready

We are going to set up the Zabbix frontend using Apache. Before starting with this recipe, make sure you are running the Zabbix server on a Linux distribution of your choice. I'll be using the lar-book-centos and lar-book-ubuntu hosts in these recipes to show the setup process on CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 20.

How to do it…

  1. Let's jump right in and install the frontend. Issue the following command to get started.

For RHEL-based systems:

dnf install zabbix-web-mysql zabbix-apache-conf

For Ubuntu systems:

apt install zabbix-frontend-php zabbix-apache-conf

Tip

Don't forget to allow ports 80 and 443 in your firewall...

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Profile icon Nathan Liefting
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Nathan Liefting, also known as Larcorba, is an IT consultant, trainer, and content creator (artist). He has more than 6 years of professional experience in IT. His experience ranges from managing networks running EVPN/VXLAN to Linux environments and programming. Nathan started working with Zabbix in 2016 when it was still at Zabbix 2 and Zabbix 3 was just released. He now works for Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands as a Zabbix trainer and consultant, designing and building professional Zabbix environments and Zabbix components for some of the biggest companies around the world.
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Profile icon Brian van Baekel
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Brian van Baekel quickly discovered how powerful Zabbix is during his career as a network engineer. Ever since, he has been working with Zabbix in various (large) environments, leading to his official Zabbix Certified Trainer certification in early 2017. In 2018, Brian founded Opensource ICT Solutions BV in the Netherlands and Opensource ICT Solutions LLC in the US. Both companies primarily focus on building Zabbix environments all over the world. In 2021, further expansion of the business was established by opening a subsidiary in the United Kingdom with a full focus on the Zabbix product. All companies provide support, training, and consultancy services, which means Brian works with the Zabbix product 24/7. Fun fact: Even his cat is named Zabbix.
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